Re: PATCH: VLAN support for 3c59x/3c90x

From: Ben Greear (greearb_at_candelatech.com)
Date: 07/31/04

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    Date:	Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:13:58 -0700
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

    Jeff Garzik wrote:
    > Matti Aarnio wrote:
    >

    >> For this IFCONFIG MTU issue, I would rather have the VLAN code to ask
    >> the underlaying driver of what MTU can be supported, than just blindly
    >> presume that 1500 will be functional for e.g. eth0.2 (like it does now)
    >
    >
    > The VLAN code could certainly be updated to poke at the lower level
    > driver MTU.

    Please do not do this without more discussion. This could easily
    break the current ability to use the regular ethernet device in the
    normal manner, regardless of the existence of VLANs. I'd rather
    not loose this capability across the board just to work around a few
    broken drivers.

    Thanks,
    Ben 

    -- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
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